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I would like to know the page title meta tag value limit according to the various search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc...
I don't want my users to write bunch of junk words in first, for example, 60 chars and give the needed info, which is important to the search engines, at the end. I need to prevent the important part of the title being chopped off by the search engines.
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Here is proper article for you.
Optimal Length for Search Engines Google typically displays the first
50-60 characters of a title tag, or as many characters as will fit
into a 512-pixel display. If you keep your titles under 55 characters,
you can expect at least 95% of your titles to display properly. Keep
in mind that search engines may choose to display a different title
than what you provide in your HTML. Titles in search results may be
rewritten to match your brand, the user query, or other
considerations.
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I want to extract an article say this:
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32156264
and only display the article content, so no BBC heading or footer. How would I do this? I'm thinking put it in an iFrame.
As you ask specifically about the BBC:
You are allowed to display the RSS feed of BBC headlines - you could use the WordPress RSS Links widget to do this.
You certainly aren't allowed to just copy someone else's story (or start removing branding etc.) – which is quite reasonable.
Note: The BBC doesn't have an API for news, but some do - e.g. The Guardian's Open Platform - again there will usually be strict restrictions on how you can display things, required branding, what you are/aren't allowed to change.
Correct approach: choose one or two relevant quotes you find interesting, highlight those, and make sure you have prominent link back to the original article.
First of all, there will be legal issues. Second, your page rank will be destroyed because to duplicate content.
If you already considered the above, you should do a PHP curl request, then parse it using a regular expression to get the target data and finally post the retrieved data.
Or, you can use APIs of other news providers like williamt mentioned.
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I've seen some websites where the number of keywords in a single HTML meta tag was 1284 and I was wondering if this is good in terms of improving SEO. Obviously having a few keywords is good but is it always more keywords = better SEO?
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What you have to remember is that search engines are designed to rank the best websites the highest, not to rank the website that wants to use the best SEO the highest. A website that appears original, genuine, and a good site for users (which is what search engines like) will do far better than a website that looks like it's trying to deceive search engines. Listing a lot of keywords, would look deceptive to search engines and would be frowned upon.
There is a saying in SEO, content is king. It makes a lot more sense to focus on original, authentic content that is beneficial to users rather than just overloading keywords. Search engines like those kinds of sites.
In addition, the top search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo do not use the meta keyword tag anymore. That tag has lost most of it's relevance to SEO.
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I've got a page with multiple <h1>. It's a forum page and each category (7x) has a <h1> tag - same as the page title. Since the page title is not clearly specifying that it's a forum page, the categories became equally important.
Will that effect the SEO of the page?
Generally speaking, is it ok to have more than one tag per page?
In HTML5 having multiple <h1> tags is allowed. On SO it is generally considered bad to only post links to external resources (link rotting etc.) but I am going to go against that rule and post one really excellent recent article about using multiple <h1> tags.
http://webdesign.tutsplus.com/tutorials/htmlcss-tutorials/the-truth-about-multiple-h1-tags-in-the-html5-era/
con of using many:
You will get flagged for Google's spiders and your search rank will plummet if it sees them abused.
You should just use one h1 for a title, perhaps some h2s for sub headings, and potentially h3 for further down headings.
As described in this extended post on stackexchange:
https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/15895/seo-regarding-using-multiple-h1-tag
But then again, it's from 3 years ago, so after reading the article from #holodoc, I'm now strangely intrigued at learning more. My answer appears to be for legacy browsers at this point.
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I'm new to web programming, and I've read that one of the reasons to avoid using Ajax to deliver too much of your content is because that content is effectively hidden from search engines. This makes sense to me.
I've just come across the data- attribute in HTML5. There seems to be no limit to the length of the string value you can place in it. Does the data-* attribute suffer from the same fault as Ajaxing stuff? Does google store values in these attributes as meaningful page information, or is it just ignored?
(I don't have a specific problem, so I don't know whether this question meets stackoverflow's criteria, I'm just genuinely curious, and couldn't find much information on my own -- partly because I didn't know what to search for because I'm relatively new to the topic.)
You are right. The data attributes is not indexed or used by Google. Even though the attribute will be cached within a page, Google doesn't bother what the attribute or the value really means.
I'd say, it's meaningless to search engines per say. They are private to the page, so say, they'd be naturally ignored by search engine indexing bots.
I have read in the HTML5 specification where it says that the data attribute should not be used by third party applications, instead they should rely on microformats.
The specification says:
Custom data attributes are intended to store custom data private to
the page or application, for which there are no more appropriate
attributes or elements.
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I'm working on a website and I'm not sure what link structure is best to use for seo.
What google would rank better?
domain.com/users/username or domain.com/u/username
domain.com/video/video-id or domain.com/v/video-id
I also see many websites include ".html" at the end, does it really work those days?
Keep these factors in mind to make your URLs more search engine friendly:
URLs should not contain extraneous characters ( $ # ! * % = ? )
Shorter URLS typically rank better than longer ones
Numbers and letters should only be used in URLs.
Do not use underscores. Search engines prefer dashes.
Sub-domains can rank better than sub directories.